Odd problem on Amazon pages

[Vickie]

Starting yesterday many Amazon pages begin to jump and down constantly
one line. Not all pages but certainly ones when they display "Both
Together" types of offers. The screen is normal when viewing from the
upper part, the starting position after loading, but I can tell when
there's going to be a problem because I can see the vertical scroll
bar flickering. If I scroll down half way, from that point on the
entire rest of the page is going up and down once every second or so.
They'll be one line of text moving up and down, as if someone hit the
Enter key and then the delete...every second or two.

There's also quite a lag between the time the pages appear to fully
load and the time one can actually access the page. (This has been
ever since they started getting a "new look", which stinks, but never
had the jumping issue until yesterday.)

I tried with my husbands laptop and they appeared normal there.

I have not noticed any problems on any other websites, but I can't
find anyone else noticing this issue on Amazon.

I have WinXP, 768RAM, nVidia GeForce3 Ti200 with updated drivers. I
disabled all Browser Helpers, but that didn't change anything.

I was wondering if people wouldn't mind checking out a few of the
sample links and post back what they find (or don't find.)

Also, if anyone has any suggestions that would be great.

Thanks-
Vickie

http://www.amazon.com/Top-Secret-Re...2288002/ref=sip_rech_dp_3/002-2020860-5789655

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0452272998/ref=pd_luc_0000104522880020452272998/002-2020860-5789655

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Comp...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=294261701&pf_rd_i=229548

http://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Machine...&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=294261701&pf_rd_i=229548

 

[Jon Kennedy]

There has been one other post re amazon.com on this group:
By surface9 on Tuesday, October 16, 2007 12:01 PM - "amazon hangs up my
windows 98se"

Seems since their redesign, they've complicated the display of some of their
pages.

My response to "surface9":

Go to the web site of your video card manufacturer, download and install the
latest drivers for your card according to their instructions. (I see you've
mentioned this already.)

As a work-around, you could turn down your video resolution, color depth or
hardware acceleration. Try the latter one first**. If that or any combo of
the others work, then it points to a video driver issue.

Another thing to try would be to update your scripting engines:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...48-207D-4BE1-8A76-1C4099D7BBB9&displaylang=en

That site also has a Flash ad, so make sure you have the latest version of
Flash:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/

**In XP, right click an empty area on the Desktop, click
Properties...Settings tab, Advanced button, Troubleshooting tab. Also try
unchecking "Enable write combining".

On some of the links you provided, I did notice the right scrollbar jump up
and down as the page loaded, and sometimes it took some time waiting for an
image or two to come in to fully load the page. Once the page loaded, and
it didn't seem to take that much longer than before, the page worked find
here. Looks like teething issues with their new design. You may want to
give them feedback on your problems. Click on the "Come take a look" link
upper right on the site, and then their feedback link.

 

[Vickie]

Thank you, Jon. I was checking out the microsoft link you posted to
update the scripting engine. That link looks like documentation
only.

Would this link be correct for the actual scripting download? If so,
is it removable if it messes things up?
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...43-7E4B-4622-86EB-95A22B832CAA&displaylang=en

Vickie

 

[Jon Kennedy]

You're welcome. Sorry about that bad link to the latest scripting engines.
Actually, the newest is v. 5.7 here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...25-D896-482E-A0D6-524E7E844D81&displaylang=en
And, yes, it's uninstallable via Add/Remove in Control Panel.

 

[Vickie]

So far the video settings didn't help. Neither did updating Flash,
although my version was the next to most recent one. Annoyingly,
Adobe offers Google Toolbar top be installed along with Flash. I
removed the tick mark to NOT get the toolbar and got it anyway. Is it
something I should keep?

Vickie

 

[Jon Kennedy]

The Google toolbar keep/uninstall issue is a personal one. If you find it
useful, keep it. If you don't, uninstall it via Add/Remove. Sorry to hear
you are still having issues with that web site. I can't think of anything
else to try to fix the issue. I'd let them know about it.